MINI: Rest in Peace Neale Daniher
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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The team pays tribute to the late Neale Daniher, reflecting on the extraordinary impact he and his family have had through their FightMND foundation, which has driven world‑leading research and awareness.
Alex shares that it’s not the circumstances but how you face them that defines you, as tributes pour in from across the country.
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| 0:00.0 | IHart Podcasts. You can hear more. |
| 0:03.2 | Gold 104.3 podcast, playlist and listen live on the free IHart app. |
| 0:08.5 | So it feels right that we should start today's show by talking about the life and times of an incredible man, which is Neil Danahar. |
| 0:16.3 | Alex's huge story today. |
| 0:18.1 | Yeah, I'm really upset this morning, Christian. |
| 0:20.4 | And as he's the country, really, |
| 0:22.4 | a former Australian of the year back in 2025. And this man was a legend. Godfather, he's been |
| 0:28.0 | described by some NFL coaches and he's responsible for a lot of coaches getting their jobs. Chris |
| 0:32.2 | Fagan, we just heard in the sports news there, the coach of the Brisbane Lions. He is raised over |
| 0:37.4 | $100 million for MND. |
| 0:39.6 | This man just fought and fought and fought and fought this disease for 13 long years. |
| 0:44.7 | Normally it takes people a lot less than that. |
| 0:47.0 | It takes a lot less than that to take people, this awful, awful disease. |
| 0:51.3 | We also learn in the National Rugby League leg, Jay Arrow, South Sydney, Queensland. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, big story last week. Heartbreaking. At 30 years old, he's got a young child. He was diagnosed |
| 1:00.8 | in December last year. And it's, it's, it's just this awful disease that just keeps, |
| 1:06.1 | it just keeps popping up. I actually think it's one of the cruelest ones that people can get |
| 1:09.5 | because it strips you of almost everything. And he was only given, Neil's had it, Neil got diagnosed, |
| 1:14.8 | what, 13 years ago? And he was given 27 months to live. And when they talk about it's not what |
| 1:20.7 | happens to your life, it's what you make of what happens to your life. His reaction to get |
| 1:25.3 | that awful diagnosis to choose a life of literally selfless service is unbelievable |
| 1:30.6 | it's nothing sort of awe-inspiring actually i went to the big freeze in 2018 when we first moved here |
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